Christian imandt



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN IMANDT, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF REFINISH INQ CURTAINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,543, dated Julie 4,1889.

I Application filed January 22, 1889. Serial No. 297,208. (Nospecimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN IMANDT, of the cit-y, county, and State ofNew York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in the Method of Refinishing Curtains, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved method of refinishing lacecurtains in a quick and effective manner without injury to the curtainsand without requiring the use of large cumbrous stretching-frames; andthe invention consists of a method of refinishing curtains, composed ofthe following successive steps: first, basting a number of superposedcurtains together at the edges; secondly, Washing the so-bastedcurtains; thirdly, drying the same; fourthly, sizing them, and, lastly,stretching and again'drying the same.

In carrying out my improved process of refinishing curtains a number ofcurtains of the same size are laid one on topof the other and bastedtogether along the four edges. The so-basted curtains are then carefullywashed, care being taken that they are not torn in washing. They arethen dried by natural or artificial heat and sized in the usual manner.They are then applied to a stretching-frame consisting of narrow, flat,or roundstrips of metal, which are passed through the curtains along thebasted edges of the same, so that the metal strips extend beyond thecorners of the curtains and cross each other at those points. To thestretching-strips are applied, at the corners and at points midway'oftheir longer side strips, suitable stretchingackle, by which thestretching-strips are drawn in outward direction, whereby the curtainsare tightly stretched ready for the drying action. By the contact of thecurtains with each other and the yielding stretching action in whichedges, as the remaining steps are old and well known.

The advantages of my improved process are, first, that any desirednumber of curtains, provided they are-of the same size, can berefinished together Without requiring the cumbrous stretching-framesheretofore in use;

secondly, that the curtains are less injured in refinishing than whenfinished singly and separately, as the superimposing of a number ofcurtains, basting them, and stretching them while so basted togetherexerts a less injurious strain on each individ ual curtain; thirdly,that the curtains can be refinished in a quicker manner and at lessexpense than by the former method.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The method herein described of refinishing lacecurtains, which consists, first, in connecting a number of superposedcurtains by basting their edges together; secondly, ashing; the so-basted curtains; thirdly, drying tl e same; fourthly, sizing the driedcurtains, and, lastly, stretchingand drying'thesame, substantially asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. CHRISTIAN IMANDT.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, WILLIAM FORGER.

